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On education

Okay. So, in this blog, I am trying out something new. I want your opinion about the topic before I start babbling. So the question I have been thinking about is: "Should education be competitive?" Please think about your learning experiences, and those of others. Do you think that what we study is influenced by the requirement to test for it? Is that conducive to learning? Is that limited by the caliber of our testers? Could an environment be designed for learning for learning's sake? Would it create more confident and self driven people... these are just my questions. Yours could be different! Please let your thoughts flow... I would like to hear your ideas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Both of the comments I received argued that competitive education is needed to land a good job. The premise being that companies like to hire people who have good education. I think we all agree that little of what we learn is actually